Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 631
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[ Drunk with Turpentine
(Spanish Death Figure)]
1979
Oil on paper
35½ x 18⅜ in. (90.2 x 46.7 cm)
comments
The title and composition of this
work recall the motif employed by
Motherwell’s 1975 painting The Spanish
Death (p838) and related works.
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Drunk with Turpentine
Drunk with Turpentine
Alternative Title: Untitled
1979
Oil on paper
35 x 18 in. (88.9 x 45.7 cm)
1979
Acrylic on paper
22⅛ x 15 in. (56.2 x 38.1 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 79
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Robert
Motherwell 1979
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell
7 March 79-A
artIst’s studIo number
d79-3595
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2227
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 60, color illus.
p. 203.
solo exhIbItIons
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 98 (catalogue), as Untitled.
solo exhIbItIons
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
February 1989.
Robischon Gallery, Denver, 2001,
cat. no. 10.
comments
Regarding the letter A in the inscription
on the recto of this work, see the
Comments for Drunk with Turpentine
No. 3 (w543).
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2007.
references
MacMillan 2001a, sec. FF, p. 4, illus.
sec. FF, p. 1.
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2399
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
619
